The scheme aims to cover a total of 5 crore BPL households to ensure universal coverage of cooking gas in the country.

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“Women of India have faced the curse of smoke during the process of cooking. According to experts, having an open fire in the kitchen is like burning 400 cigarettes an hour. The time has come to remedy this situation.”

He added that to solve this situation, the government had decided to provide LPG connections in names of women members of poor households.

Jaitley had further mentioned that a sum of Rs 2,000 crore was set aside in this year’s Budget to meet the initial cost of providing the LPG connections. “This will benefit about 1 crore 50 lakh households below the poverty line in 2016-17,” he had said.